Posted on 08/21/2008 6:43:50 AM PDT by mbynack
The world's fastest firing gun is now lightweight, reliable, versatile and lethal.
The videos are amazing..thnx! I’ve forwarded them along.
Way kewl!
That would be a big hit at the deer club. (for coyotes, varmints, etc.)
A shotgun is faster than metalstorm. Anyone can reload a shotgun.
I would like to shoot one, as long as someone else is buying the ammunition for me.
True enough, but the first volley is truly impressive!
Colonel, USAFR
I am not impressed with any gun I can’t reload or needs factory support.
No aimed fire? Just touch it off and walk in the stream of tracers?
Awesome machine. What a fine piece of hardware. I’m still stunned by how fast it can grow a mound of brass.
Fun toy. Terrible weapon.
Well, not quite. It doesn't show Mike Dillon's WWII halftrack with quad .50 mount on which the Browning M2s were replaced with Dillon's favouritest product.
There are a couple of things more impressive than the old Quad Fifty *Meatgrinder* firing at night. Dillon's update of the old mount- found mounted on US gun trucks as late as Vietnam, and still in reserve use by the Israelis refitted with twin 20mm autocannon- is certainly one of them.
Big hoots of good-natured derison arose, but all recognized the superiority of the modern gun. It was just a case of the old-timers outsmarting the new kids.
They did the same thing at Camp Perry back around 1960, when the M14 was still fairly new and a very cool entry into the U.S. toybox.
They stuck a couple of 8x8-inch posts, probably railroad ties, upright in the ground about a hundred yards out, and lined up four guys with trapdoor Springfields in front of one, and a pair of shooters with Garanda and two with the new M14 in front of the other, and let fly.
The Guys with the Garands fired away, and popped replacement 8-round clips into their rifles as fast as they could aim and fire. The M14s had a field table covered with loaded magazines behind them, and took about 3 seconds between each twenty rounds of aimed fire. And the four guys with the .45-70 Trapdoors went Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! in a steady, repetitive, almost monotonous cadence.
And it was the pole in front of the Trapdoor shooters that went down first. I don't know if their slugs were going clear through the wood or not, but they sure got the job done. And if the Trapdoor has any tendency to jam cases when hot, I sure didn't see it that day.
I'm impressed. Say hello to Vanessa and her Little Friend.
I want three. And an M3 tripod for a .50 Browning.
Spent a lot of time behind the GAU-2. The mod B had selective fire, 4000 rnd/per/min, 6000 rnd/per/min. The 6K setting on the earlier models basically was a request by the operator to initiate monumental jam sequence. Great weapon for suppressive fire.
Good choice!!
Always glad to read about the old smoke poles outdoing the new-fangled repeaters, even though you know they are obsolete.
Something similar happened at the first shoot I wrote about. A large board with 32 clay pigeons attached was set up at 50 yards. One guy with an M1 went up against an 8-man team of .58 cal muzzleloaders, ostensibly to show how the rate of firepower per man has increased.
Needless to say, the 8-man team creamed the M1 guy, who shot and shot and shot and occasionally broke a clay while the “musketeers” blew ‘em to powder with each shot.
It seems that at that close range, the high-velocity 30 cal bullet drilled clean holes in the clays while the 58 cal slugs gallumping along at 1/3 the speed smashed their way through.
I stated I was NOT impressed with Metalstorm meaning any gun that can’t be reloaded and needs factory support. What does a minigun have to do with that statement?
My misunderstanding; your statement was that "I am not impressed with any gun I can’t reload or needs factory support." and since the topic of this thread is mthe M134 minigun, I misunderstood that it was the M134- which can be reloaded for, of course, but does require trained, factory or otherwise, armourer support well beyond the blacksmith level- with which you were not impressed.
I don't think a whole lot of Metalstorm yet either, though I suspect they'll find some applications along the lines of the Mk19 Grenade Launcher or 50-60mm mortar before too long, especially when deployed as remote area denial tools, sort of a liong-distance Claymore mine with pellets that go Bang/Boom.
But I AM still very much impressed with Vanessa and her work tool.
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